Sony Q2 net profit beats estimates at ¥449.6B; raises full-year outlook

Sony's beat is broad-based rather than a one-line surprise: both net profit and operating profit cleared estimates by wide margins, and the guidance raise on both operating profit and net sales signals management sees the strength as durable rather than a single-quarter quirk. For crypto and RWA readers, Sony matters less as a hardware story than as one of the large consumer and entertainment groups whose balance sheet and content library underpin tokenization and digital-asset experiments, so a firmer earnings base is a relevant backdrop. Whether the raised outlook holds through the rest of the fiscal year is the open question.